General manager Mickey Loomis made his weekly appearance on WWL Radio with Mike Hoss Tuesday evening, addressing the obvious with trade Marshon Lattimore and cooking Denis Allen. Loomis did not speak with the media after the move, so besides the statement This is the first time we’ve heard of him. Loomis said only recently have there been discussions around Lattimore.

Loomis said: “I definitely think it’s just in the last week that there’s been some speculation about him being traded, given our record, you know, it’s going to spur calls and we’ve had a number of them at the over the last, you know, four or five days.”

Trading Lattimore gave the Saints multiple draft picks for next year’s draft, getting a 3rd, 4th and 6th round pick from Washington in exchange for him and a 5th round pick. The 6th Rounder was the one the Saints used to acquire John Ridgeway III. Loomis considers this progress in the draft. The fallout from his departure is dead money added to the salary cap, which stands at just over $36 million.

“It gets complicated because there’s an acceleration of bonuses that have been written off and some things like that, but yeah, I mean, look, we don’t do that – it’s, you know, you have it well said. That’s $18 million over the next two years, every year, that we can use elsewhere, but let me say this: Marshon has been a fantastic player for us. He was a great draft pick. You know, he was the defensive rookie of the year the year we drafted him, 17, and made the Pro Bowl several times. He’s a fantastic player. He was a good teammate and, you know, I have nothing but good things to say about Marshon. Unfortunately, in recent years he has had some soft tissue injuries and a few other injuries to deal with, but he is still, I believe, one of the best corners in our league and Washington is recruiting a good player for their playoff campaign . here and their race, so I wish him nothing but the best, really. It was just, you know, ultimately it came down to a deal that I thought was, you know, good for us, good value for us and that’s why we did it. we did.

Regarding Dennis Allen, Loomis reiterated much of what was said in his statement, but expanded on it. He also addressed the column on players and parking.

“Look, I think Dennis Allen is a fantastic football coach, and I think anyone in our league who would talk about him thinks he’s a fantastic football coach. He is. I think in this case, look, the circumstances created the record. It’s just the truth, and a lot of people don’t want to hear it. I mean, we write stupid things, like, ah, players don’t park in the right places. I mean, it’s ridiculous. Players have been parking there for 15 years, you know, because work is underway. We have 100 more employees than 10 years ago. This is just plain stupid, and equating this with discipline is also stupid. I mean, we’re 8th – before this last game, we were 8th with the fewest penalties in the league. This is more of a comment on discipline than where a player parks, for crying out loud, but it brings us back to what’s staring you right in the face, which is that we’ve had an abnormal number of injuries, including to our quarterback, and we haven’t been able to overcome that, which puts pressure and stress on the organization and ultimately it motivated a change.

Loomis did not address the team on Monday, leaving that to Darren Rizzi. He thought he did a great job talking to the team, the media and describing something he wanted to do differently. The goal is to hopefully get the second half of the season going again.

“I think he’s a pretty obvious choice, given his experience, his role as special teams coach, which you just described, you deal with almost every player on the team when you’re in that role , so it’s a voice that our players have heard before. He’s used to being in front of a big group of players and presenting and look, he has a great personality and a great positive attitude at all times, and, you know, look, he was a candidate, you know, when we hired Dennis Allen, he was one of the candidates and did really well in his interviews, so I think he was a. obvious choice.

“Rizzi always had this effervescent personality. He has kind of a fighter mentality, and you feel that even when you’re just talking in a regular conversation with him, you know, and so I think it was received positively by our team and certainly by our staff and our players of really positive way. , really, really difficult circumstance.

Loomis said the team won’t really be active in the coaching search right now, but will do so once the season is over. He focused on what’s in the building and talked about how he’s already been through the process of facing adversity in 2005. He also talked about the state of the team and, obviously, the frustration that the fans feel.

“It’s not fun losing games. You know, I can’t describe it to you, as bad as our fans feel and the things they feel, believe me, we all feel 10 times worse, but you can’t wallow in that. You have to get off the mat and be fighting, and that’s true for every single person in this building, and so we’re going to see what we have over the next eight weeks. .

Loomis added that he doesn’t question the efforts of the coaching staff and players, something Dennis Allen also said. However, this is still not good enough and needs to improve to even out wins. He talked about how they lost their top two receivers, their top two corners, their three interior linemen and their quarterback this year. The Saints know there were several games where the game came down to one final possession and had a chance to win the game, but didn’t.

“The other team made a few plays, and that’s how close it is, you just quoted it, it’s not that far from being 5-4 instead of being 2-7 and yet it’s 2-7, I mean, we have we have to own it. That’s what we are.

Wednesday is a new era for the Saints, and they have three critical months to evaluate where they are, where they’re going to go and how they’re going to get there.